Form Narcity: It seems like everyone in Seattle is sporting some kind of coronavirus protection, and the Fremont Troll is no exception. An image of our famous monster wearing a blue medical mask has been going viral and the whole city is obsessed. The question on everyone’s mind: Is it real or Photoshop? We got in touch with the man behind the mask to get all the details.
“I saw the news where a couple of tourists in Seattle were wearing face masks,” photographer Brian David Casey said in an interview with Narcity. “Then my creative mind kicked in and came up with the idea of going around to the famous Seattle landmarks in my neighborhood and putting masks on them.”
The Seattle-based photographer is best known for his portraits, wedding, and event photography that he’s been shooting in the city for more than 15 years. But he tells us that he has always wanted a more creative outlet.
“I think Seattleites are on edge right now with this virus,” he said, “So if these images can bring a smile to some and take the edge off, that would be a good thing.”
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The best national site to follow the statistics for the COVID-19 epidemic is https://covid19.healthdata.org/ . The national cumulative data and each states data and projections are available. Nationally the peak may not be until April 15th, but Washington appears to be faring better without no projected shortage of beds, ICU beds or ventilators. Let’s keep up the hand washing and social distancing. Now is not the time to let up
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Just in case everyone doesn’t know, the lovely apples on display as Art of the Month are the work of Ryan Miller’s wife Liisa. She is certainly a gifted artist and I very much appreciate her sharing her work.
Congratulations both Liisa and Ryan. Very nice and generous of you both, Donna Dunning and all of Skyline residents
The President says he won’t bother, but the CDC now recommends use of a face mask. Science is navigating a tortuous path and many perils as it attempts to reach the doors of the White House. Below is an article from Nature medicine. Surgical type face masks tend to decrease droplets from escaping into the air (think of the fog from your breath on a mirror). Such masks may help reduce the spread of the virus from infected people. I’d suggest everyone, when out in the public, wear a surgical type face mask. If you do have a supply, please give some to the staff who are daily meeting the public and have a very limited (or none) access to even a home-made mask. Visitors here should be wearing them. It’s time to ramp up efforts to make our own.
Jim S. has sent along a useful guide to make your use of Zoom less prone to bugs. My Zoom updated today so some bugs may already be fixed. Please note that this guide also includes suggestions for those who run Zoom meetings. If you just attend Zoom meetings, you won’t find some of the suggested changes in your menus.
“Skyline
Legacy Recipes: The Perfect and Timely Solitary Activity for Residents of
Skyline”
Are you missing
seeing your neighbors? Longing for something to do? Here is the
perfect activity for you. You can do this while you stay in your
apartment.
Skyline Legacy
Recipes will be a collection of recipes from our individual backgrounds that
might disappear when we are gone. Keep those recipes alive! I am
thinking of Hollis Williams’ Persimmon Pudding, of Al McCrae’s mother’s
Scottish Shortbread, of my mother’s remarkable Italian Ravioli, of Sue
Phillip’s Peanut Butter Fudge, and of Cornelius Rosse’s mother’s Hungarian
recipes. And Della Lium and Lilyan Snow both have enough delicious
recipes to fill an entire book on her own.
Surely you have a
favorite cake, chicken dish, appetizer or dessert, for example, from your past.
Contribute those recipes to Skyline Legacy Recipes, and let them live on.
All you need to do
is send your recipe(s) to Joan Conlon or Lil Snow, either in written form or
via email, and we will go from there. Think of the unique quality of our
final product!
Let Lil or me know
if you have any questions.
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At a time when theatre fans around the world can’t visit their local theatres or cinemas, we’re excited to launch National Theatre at Home.
Join us every week on Thursday at 7pm British Standard Time for a much-loved National Theatre Live production, free to stream on YouTube for seven days.
It all starts with James Corden’s Tony-Award winning performance in One Man, Two Guvnors on Thursday 2 April. And Jayne Eyrefrom Thursday 9 April, Twelfth Night from Thursday 16 April and Treasure Island from 23 April have also been announced.
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Sylvia Pererson asks: Can these Legacy Recipes please be shared online? They would be interesting. On the flip side – if anyone wants a good recipe for (whatever) would they consider requesting one from the readers?
Give-aways
Put Barber says: We have a one-pound tin of genuine Chinese jasmine tea that the vendor sent to us by mistake and it cannot be returned. If someone who loves jasmine tea would like to have it, they need only ask. (putnam.barber@gmail.com)
About this blog post
The goal for this blog posting is to increase the connections among people who live at Skyline in whatever ways make sense. Any announcements that fit with that goal are welcome.
On Wednesdays, Put Barber will compile any announcements sent to skyline.notices@gmail.com into a list of notices above, which will then be posted to “Skyline 725 Happenings” (https://www.skyline725.com/) early Thursday morning. Please include your contact information in your message and, if f you prefer to be contacted in some way (text, email, phone, or at a specific time), please include your preference as well.
Please send anything you would like to suggest to be included before 5
pm on Wednesdays to skyline.notices@gmail.com.
Ed note: We have bidet toilet seats in both of our bathrooms. Several manufactures now make them to fit the standard toilet. Maintenance helped us with the installation. Europe and Japan are laughing at our rush for TP!
In recent weeks, as the coronavirus has tightened restrictions on public and private life, Americans have been hoarding toilet paper, their shopping carts piled high, as supplies were quickly depleted: the shelves, and sometimes whole aisles, bare.
What we buy in times of crisis says a lot about who we are. “The pasta shelves are empty!” cried an older man stepping out of an Italian grocery store in a video from February. It makes sense that one of the first things to fly off the shelves in Italy’s version of coronavirus panic shopping was pasta — not just because Italians love pasta, but because food is so tethered to the way of life there, it’s almost synonymous with living. (They weren’t as concerned about toilet paper; many Italians use bidets.)
When the virus hit Iran, middle-class families bought rotting fruit at a discounted price from vendors who put out their bruised and unsaleable produce each evening, according to one Los Angeles Times report, reflecting the strain that U.S. sanctions, and now the pandemic, have placed on the country’s economy and its people.
The food made sense to me. But as the new coronavirus has radically altered many of our needs and habits, I have found it hard to wrap my head around all the toilet paper.
I grew up with an Iranian Muslim mother, who had passed along the ritual of washing after every bowel movement. What began as a source of shame (“Why do you keep watering cans next to all your toilets?” my friends would ask when they came to our house) would eventually become a badge of honor. My bathroom hygiene was immaculate. I would never know skid marks, except as something grotesque and unfathomable, like fascism.
After I moved out of my childhood home, I continued the tradition, keeping one watering can for my windowsill plants and another for me. I began to proselytize to friends: We use water to clean almost everything else. Why make an exception on the commode? They would cringe, unable to push past the thought of digital contact with feces.
But in the face of a toilet paper shortage, could they be convinced?
“At the heart of this is the question of sanitation itself,” said Martin Melosi, the Cullen professor emeritus of history at the University of Houston and the author of “The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America From Colonial Times to the Present,” in a phone interview. “What does cleanliness mean?”
I’ve been asked a lot about what our options are if we get very sick with COVID-19 pneumonia. Below are my recorded thoughts as of April 1st. We are still early on and there is not extensive data yet. So please think about your options and discuss them with your loved ones and physician. Sorry the audio quality isn’t better. And no, I’m not on a beach somewhere 🙂
Jim deMaine, MD
Useful reference sites about advance care planning.
Age: Old. There’s been a settlement here on the Creuddyn peninsula in North Wales since the stone age.
Famous for: Mining heritage, splendid Victorian architecture and gorgeous beaches. Llandudno is known as the Queen of the Welsh resorts. Well that’s what it was famous for, until now …
Population: About 15,000. Until now …
There’s a lot of “until now” going on. I’m guessing something’s happened there? New arrivals, perhaps? Yup.
Tourists, surely not? Nope.
I give up. Who? Goats.
Kids these days? Stop it.
“This town is coming like a goats’ town. All the clubs have been closed down …” Yes, very good. But actually, yes, that’s exactly what has happened. Taking advantage of the deserted streets because of the coronavirus lockdown, a posse of Great Orme goats has moved into town and is running riot.
Oh my God, it’s really happening. The animals are already taking over. Like dolphins swarming the canals of Venice and the drunken elephants marauding through Chinese villages …Fake news. But the Llandudno goats are real. See also the Bergamo boars, as yet to be fact-checked. But it does really seem to be that nature is returning to the towns and cities of the world.Advertisement
You’re a Bergamo bore. And how exactly did the Llandudno goats run riot? Locked horns on the beach, head-butted shop windows? A bit of ram-raiding? They ate a few hedges in the Trinity Square area of town. They trespassed in several front gardens and ran across a road without looking properly. A man named Andrew Stuart spotted them from the window of the pub he lives in. They weren’t keeping the required two metres apart, he observed. And who is Mr Stuart gonna call?
Goatbusters? Actually, North Wales Police, to whom this particular herd was already well known. They recently caused some damage to a primary school, Ysgol San Sior, and munched their way through a load of newly planted trees. The headteacher, Ian Jones, called them “vandals”.
Just don’t call it the nanny state. Anyway, what happened? A squad car was sent and the animals were shepherded (goat-herded?) out of town.
Yeah, for now! Where do they normally live? In the north Wales mountains. There are said to be about 120 of them. Descended from the goats of the mountains of Kashmir.
Do sing: “Do you remember the good old days before the goats’ town? We danced and sang, and the music played in a de boomtown.”
Don’t say: “I’ll be baaaaaaaack.”
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